/lit/ - Literature

>inb4 women

Frankenstein

My Big Fat Flabbity Cunt by Your Mother

I haven't really read any books written by female authors, except the Harry Potter books back in the day.

.. Yeah.

The Handmaid's Tale. If you look past the preachy feminism, it's a pretty good dystopian novel.

>>1728098
I've read it and I though it was ok, but it kind of read like Catcher in the Rye with monsters.

I AM SO SAD AND DEPRESSED WOE IS ME

OH NO NOW I AM SAD AND DEPRESSED

EVERYTHING IS MISERY

Water for Elephants.

And I'm going to see the movie too.

read flannery o'connor's complete collection of short stories. seriously, i'm not familiar with many female authors but she fucking owns. and she stuff had me re-thinking my own writing. easily in my top five favorite authors ever.

>>1728121
>and she stuff
;_;

i meant, "and her stuff." just thinking about her skeelo gets me so excited i fuck shit up.

>>1728121
is she the one that wrote that one story with the murderer and the family vacation to Florida and the annoying grandma, if so, it sucked.

is she that one that wrote that story with the wierd red headed dude who meets some girl and they become bestest friends ever, if so then she sucked harder. actually i think that might have been sylvia plath

The Dispossessed OR The Waves

Annie Proulx's collection of short stories from which Brokeback Mountain was birthed is also brilliant.

I enjoy everything by Jane Austen, and highly recommend her works. Although most people single out Pride and Prejudice as her best, I feel that they are all good.

Viginia Woolf - The Waves
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Edwidge Danticat - The Farming of Bones
Cynthia Ozick - The Shawl

there's a couple.

Here's some for you, OP. Just ignore the ones you may already hate and try something new.

>>1728154
After reading Emma, I have no desire to waste any more time on Austen's trash.

I don't see much point in both feeding and justifying your cognitive bias, but I'll give a few recommendations...

Joyce Carol Oates: A Garden of Earthly Delights, or Zombie.

Ursula K. Leguin for science fiction: The Dispossessed or The Lathe of Heaven

Carson McCullers: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Anais Nin: Delta of Venus

You will probably refuse to like any of these because they present a female perspective by choice or by fact of their authors being women.
Reading is supposed to expand your perspective, you know, but it doesn't do much for that if your effort is spent maintaining your own attitudes and opinions.

>>1728161
thanks, saved the image for a later date

>>1728154
I will try to get my hands on something by her then, thanks.

You'll never find more self-styled intellectuals who wear their ignorance as a badge of honor than you will on /lit/

Cynthia Ozick oooooowns btw

>>1728185
lol by '/lit/' i think you mean 'the internet'.

>>1728148
>>1728160
These two got it right. The Waves is beautiful. You have to enjoy modernism though, because she truly embraces it with that book. I feel like you can pull almost every other line out as an amazing quote.

female artists in general are politicized rather then interested in aesthetic. You can enjoy them if you want to show off your domesticated sensitive liberal cred, but its not like they can be enjoyed by their own merits, without the opportunity to get offended or indiginant at any of your friends so callously patriachal to not see their hidden quality.


picture completely related.

>>1728230
go back to /b/, john updike.

>>1728121
I second this. Excellent stuff

>>1728230
>Hidden quality
well, they're really good at it...

Seconding Ozick and Woolf, adding Walker and Plath.

>>1728148
>>1728160
I came in here to say The Waves so I love you guys.

wat

>by a women
lol

misogynists are pretty dumb

>>1728230

It saddens me that people with such a close-minded and vapid view of the world such as yourself, still exist. Get off lit and go back to b.

Bare in mind also that the lack of women's literature is mainly to do with the fact they were not taught how to read, or write, or given any sort of degree of equality until at least the 1700s...

Hey, women authors rule. There's Shelley, iris Murdoch . . . um, the other . . . ones . . . who are also . . . good.

>>1728276
In the Western world, you mean. In Japan, women wrote a ton of literature in Japanese during the 11th century and later.

>>1728276
I don't think he's necessarily wrong, but I think he's wrong in the inherent sentiment. The major trend these days in artistic expression is towards politicised sentiment and even apparent aesthetic fixation is necessarily politicised insofar as it's a product of unconscious impulses, which are in turn shaped by the social environment.

tl;dr women artists may be politicised in expression, but so are men.

>>1728297

Shut your big-word drivel. Say it like you mean it!

Interview With The Vampire was pretty good

And the person who wrote that was a woman AND a Christfag

Female writing is just the same as male, except on a smaller cross-section. A small percent are decent but most are shit. Same with men except you notice less with men because there's so many.

/thread

>>1728307
She wasn't a christfag until Stan Rice died, which was long after that book was written.

>>1728333

My bad.

Bitches don't know about my bitch, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the brilliant Mexican poet.

>poet
>brilliant
>mfw

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Also, Frankenstein was at least heavily edited by Percy Shelley.

>>1728353
Admit it, you've never even heard of her, much less read any of her work, have you?
>your visage quand

middlemarch?

The Adrian Mole series.